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Monday, August 23, 2010

Prominent Dissenter Is Former Jesuit Currently Teaching At Georgetown

Prominent Catholic dissenters have created an organization to promote homs@xual political causes and to change Catholic opinion through coordination with other activists. Organized explicitly to oppose the U.S. bishops, the group’s website asks for reports of “anti-equality activity” in Catholic parishes. The group Catholics for Equality’s website, which is still under construction, reports that the organization is dedicated to “support, educate, and mobilize equality-supporting Catholics to advance LGB/T equality at federal, state, and local levels.” ......Catholics for Equality’s organizational meeting was convened by Washington attorney Phil Attey and Rev. Dr. Joe Palacios,(here), (here) , (here) and (here) described as a Jesuit priest from Los Angeles who is currently on the Georgetown University faculty.

Link (here) to the full Catholic News Agency article. Blogger Note: The article seems to be incorrect, Joe Palacios is not a Jesuit, an anonymous commenter states that he left the Society a few years ago. Websites leave the impression that he is currently a Jesuit, his Georgetown bio has no S.J. after his name.

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In a nutshell, a lawyer from the Human Right Campaign (a D.C. based gay rights advocacy group) and a Georgetown professor have established a tax exempt organization to campaign for gay rights in the Catholic Church.

All these organizations need is Articles of Incorporation, a 501(c)(3) application and a fax machine. They can call themselves Catholic, but they are not. Indeed, the new organization is as Catholic as "Catholics for Choice" - meaning not at all.

I imagine, however, the new organization will be the darling of the media, just like Catholics for Choice is.

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